Travel Guide Graçay

Graçay is located at the center-west point of the Department of Cher, bordering on Indre. The village, watered by the Fouzon and Pozon, is 2 km from the A 20 motorway.In the Middle Ages, Graçay was an important seigneury that was given in dowry to Blanche de Castille. The city was then fortified by ramparts around the upper city and the low city and closed by five doors. Witnesses of medieval times, ramparts, a seigneurial, the abside Saint-Martin of the church of the late xie century are tourist attractions for the commune. Prior to 1806, Graçay absorbed those neighboring Avexi, Coulon and Saint-Phâlier who were temporarily renamed during the French Revolution La Liberté. The commune was served, from 1904 to 1939, by a subway line with a symmetrical track of those who connected Issoudun and Vatan to Vierzon. Graçay is located in the geographical area and in the milk production area, manufacture and refining of Valençay cheese.In the Middle Ages, Graçay had six churches: four extra-muros including Saint-Insulille and two intra-muros including Saint-Martin. Today there is the abside Saint-Martin built at the end of the eleventh century. He was a priory dependent on Massay Abbey. Pillaged at the time of religious wars, he served as a club and then salangtrized during the Revolution. At the end of the eighteenth century the nef and the bell collapsed. During the first tranche of work, a excavation site began bursting with graves and defined exactly the plan of the church. Unlike most buildings, the church is northeast and not east-west. A pure Romanesque style, it was built on the Benedictine plan with a deep abside, flanked by two absidioles leading to a transept. We see the foundations outside. The building has been added to the additional inventory of historic monuments since 1930.Graçay makes it possible to go back even more in time with the dolmen of La Pierre Levé, which is also called Grosse Pierre, it is Neolithic time and located in the village Aux Peis. In very hard sandstone, its table measures 2.40 m diameter over 0.80 m thick, supported by two stones on song. The building has been inscribed in Historical Monuments since 1889.